Mime, Music and Drama on the Eighteenth-Century Stage: The Ballet d’Action

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The ‘ballet d’action’ used to be one of the vital successful and controversial forms of theatre in the early up to date period. A curious hybrid of dance, mime and music, its overall and overriding intention used to be to create drama. It used to be danced drama relatively than dramatic dance; musical drama relatively than dramatic music. Most up to date critical studies of the ballet d’action treat it more narrowly as stage dance, and very few view it as a part of the history of mime. Little use has in the past been made of the most revealing musical evidence. This innovative book does justice to the distinctive hybrid nature of the ballet d’action by taking a comparative approach, the use of up to date literature and literary criticism, music, mime and dance from a variety of English and European sources. Edward Nye presents an enchanting study of this important and influential a part of eighteenth-century European theatre.

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